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1. Orientation:
The legend of Bandung begins here...
(According to the story of Sundanese Folk)
From passion, desire, love, and angry of Sangkuriang, The Eruption of Mountain Tangkuban Parahu, until
now become a city...
Here is the short story...
There is a kingdom in Priangan Land. Live a happy family, a father in form of dog (his name is Tumang), a
mother (her name is Dayang Sumbi), and a child call Sangkuriang. Tumang is demigod possessing magic
powers.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked her son to go hunting in the nearest jungle and she wanted some deer
liver or venison. So Sangkuriang went hunting with his lovely dog, Tumang, to please his mother. After
hunting all day with empty-handed, Sangkuriang began desperate and worried. Think shortly,
Sangkuriang took his arrow and shot his dog. Then he took the dog liver or flesh and carried home.
Complication:
He gave dog liver or flesh to his mother. Soon Dayang Sumbi fine out that Sangkuriang lied to her. She
knew Sangkuriang had killed Tumang. So, She angry and hit Sangkuriang head. Sangkuriang got
wounded and scar. Sangkuriang cast away from their home.
Years go bye, Sangkuriang had travel many places and on one day, he arrived at a village which is used
to be his home. He met a beautiful woman whom actually his mother and felt in love with her.
Their love grew naturally and one day, when they were discussing their wedding plans, Dayang Sumbi
suddenly realised that the profile of Sangkuriang's head matched that of her only son's who had left
twenty years earlier. How could she marry her own son? But she did not wish to dissapointed him by
canceling the wedding. So, although she agreed to marry Sangkuriang, she would do so only on the
condition that he provide her with a lake and a boat with which they could sail on the dawn of their
wedding day.
Sangkuriang accepted this condition and built a lake by damming the Citarum river. With a dawn just
moment away and the boat almost complete, Dayang Sumbi realised that Sangkuriang would fulfill the
condition she had set. With a wave of her supernatural shawl, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes
of light. Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowed and farmers rose for the new day.
Resolution:
With his work not yet complete, SangkuriaNg realised that his endeavor were lost. With all his anger, he
kicked the boat that he himself had built. The boat fell over and, in so doing become the mountain
TANGKUBAN PARAHU (in Sundanese, TANGKUBAN means upturned or upside down, and PARAHU
means boat). With the dam torn asunder, the water drained from the lake becoming a wide plain and
nowadays became a city called BANDUNG (from the word BENDUNG, which means Dam)

2. The Story of Sangkuriang and Tangkuban Perahu Mountain
Once, there was a kingdom in Priangan Land. Lived a happy family. They were a father in form
of dog,his name is Tumang, a mother which was called is Dayang Sumbi, and a child which was
called Sangkuriang.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked her son to go hunting with his lovely dog, Tumang. After hunting
all day, Sangkuriang began desperate and worried because he hunted no deer. Then he thought to
shot his own dog. Then he took the dog liver and carried home.
Soon Dayang Sumbi found out that it was not deer lever but Tumang’s, his own dog. So, She
was very angry and hit Sangkuriang’s head. In that incident, Sangkuriang got wounded and scar
then cast away from their home.
Years go bye, Sangkuriang had travel many places and finally arrived at a village. He met a
beautiful woman and felt in love with her. When they were discussing their wedding plans, The
woman looked at the wound in Sangkuriang’s head. It matched to her son’s wound who had left
severall years earlier. Soon she realized that she felt in love with her own son.
She couldn’t marry him but how to say it. Then, she found the way. She needed a lake and a boat
for celebrating their wedding day. Sangkuriang had to make them in one night. He built a lake.
With a dawn just moment away and the boat was almost complete. Dayang Sumbi had to stop it.
Then, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of light. It made the cock crowed for a new day.
Sangkuriang failed to marry her. She was very angry and kicked the boat. It felt over and became
the mountain of Tangkuban Perahu Bandung.